Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Today, 14:59

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by weedeewee

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Well it's hardware for retro hardware. A proper diagnostics card. Needless to say, more chips = better. 😉 DSC_8937.JPG The cheapest card (top) works fine in a PCI slot, but in an ISA slot, not so much. I can't recall how many times I've shown & said it nor if I already told you, so here it goes …

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Re: Western Digital WD10TMVV hard disk, interface type ?

Posted on Today, 03:28

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by weedeewee

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Yeah, I searched for over an hour myself. I have several adapters for 2.5 disks, but not for this one ! Welcome to the confused discussion !! I'm not confused by the fact that it's a USB C connector, I just looked at your photo and the google results. After looking at some more photos it's clear …

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Re: Western Digital WD10TMVV hard disk, interface type ?

Posted on Yesterday, 21:18

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by weedeewee

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looks like SAS edit, oh wait, googled it.. it's USB ?!

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Re: Announcing a new (Ultra-2) SCSI emulator. Help me define some features!

Posted on Yesterday, 21:16

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by weedeewee

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How will you produce / release it?

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Re: Announcing a new (Ultra-2) SCSI emulator. Help me define some features!

Posted on Yesterday, 19:19

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by weedeewee

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Well, your project sounds really cool. I forgot about tape drives and ls120. If you have removable drive support even floppy drives would be possible. I was thinking maybe even a bluray drive would be possible but, were there any bluray scsi drives made and the drm features would likely be a …

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Re: Aweutil /EM option - speed sensitive

Posted on Yesterday, 15:46

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by weedeewee

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Demolition-Man wrote on Yesterday, 15:32: I`m using Norton System Commander v5.04. It was my first attempt in this direction, but it worked. Norton System Commander v5.04 Excuse me ? I know of Norton Commander, and the boot manager System Commander, but Norton System Commander I have never heard of …

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Re: Announcing a new (Ultra-2) SCSI emulator. Help me define some features!

Posted on Yesterday, 15:35

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by weedeewee

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you could add the ability to Identify a target as a specific drive, ie any identity information that a normal drive would give would be given by the emulated target when the specific drive information is available and the target is set to give out specific information. SCSI scanner support, just add …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 14:49

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by weedeewee

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I found a datasheet describing a more recent but similar card. (https://partners.trendcontrols.com/trendproducts/cd/pl/pdf/en-ta200241-uk0yr0608.pdf) Page 2 seems to explain that the card is indeed managed through serial and is only using the ISA bus for power. (this more recent card is PCI based) …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on Yesterday, 11:42

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by weedeewee

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Saw this card in a flea market. My brain just went "it's an ISA card, must buy". It looked like a serial port interface, and the fact that it has a Z80 CPU made it interesting. Paid 1€ for it Upon closer inspection... I don't know what it is. It only uses 7 contacts of the ISA slot (haven't yet …

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Re: ECS K7S5A No POST/No Display, Troubleshooting Help

Posted on 2024-05-01, 11:28

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by weedeewee

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I have one of those mainboards. replaced all the caps on it. fried a cpu. verified cpu voltage rails, measured the correct voltage. fried another cpu. stuck the board in my pile 'for parts' pile.

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Re: Doubts about L2 cache on 486

Posted on 2024-04-29, 21:25

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by weedeewee

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Thanks, I guess it's likely just an ISA connector in an EISA connector color 😀

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Re: Doubts about L2 cache on 486

Posted on 2024-04-29, 21:10

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by weedeewee

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Is there anything special about the first ISA? slot next to the PCI slot ? the manual on theretroweb doesn't even seem to mention it. Aside from it sharing the same slot on the case as the third PCI slot. Is a PISA, can be a PCI or a ISA or have a riser for what i know Can you post a photo of the …

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Re: Doubts about L2 cache on 486

Posted on 2024-04-29, 20:57

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by weedeewee

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theelf wrote on 2024-04-29, 20:45: Is there anything special about the first ISA? slot next to the PCI slot ? the manual on theretroweb doesn't even seem to mention it. Aside from it sharing the same slot on the case as the third PCI slot.

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Re: Short on ISA slots? Try this.

Posted on 2024-04-29, 20:12

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by weedeewee

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You know, your idea got me thinking of another one. I wonder if those usb pcie type of extenders could be made for the isa bus? Much cleaner and would use standard usb cables. No. unless you want to use about 10 or 11 USB3A cables Not for something like this: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/ …

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Re: Doubts about L2 cache on 486

Posted on 2024-04-29, 19:58

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by weedeewee

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Why not run speedsys or cachechk ?

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Re: Short on ISA slots? Try this.

Posted on 2024-04-29, 19:53

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by weedeewee

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Samir wrote on 2024-04-29, 19:49: You know, your idea got me thinking of another one. I wonder if those usb pcie type of extenders could be made for the isa bus? Much cleaner and would use standard usb cables. No. unless you want to use about 10 or 11 USB3A cables

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Re: Help needed in tracking down the model of this compaq laptop. (1996-1997)

Posted on 2024-04-29, 16:12

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by weedeewee

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looks like some compaq LTE model. Compaq LTE Elite 4/40cx Looks a lot like it ebay 225472413071 thanks to gemini.

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Re: Working XTA (IDE on XT) setup on GLaBIOS

Posted on 2024-04-28, 12:35

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by weedeewee

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Here's some reading for getting HD FDD support on an XT https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=46950 a nice full clean photo of only your mainboard would be great to identify perhaps chipset or brand model or which bios would be best. I can almost see the chipset underneath the sata adapter&cables. …

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Re: Working XTA (IDE on XT) setup on GLaBIOS

Posted on 2024-04-28, 12:17

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by weedeewee

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If you do some math... 40 Megabytes divided by 3 minutes = 227,5 Kilobytes/s Seems about right for that archaic interface 😀 maybe a bit slow, I think RLL & MFM were faster

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Re: How do I roll my own nusb33e.exe for other languages?

Posted on 2024-04-28, 09:48

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by weedeewee

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Somebody asked a very similar question just a day ago. Source Code for NUSB?

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